La Via Campesina declared April 17th as the International Day of Peasant Struggle to highlight the struggle and denounce the criminalization of protests. Peasant farmers are persecuted and suffer violence on a daily basis as a result of the implementation of neoliberal policies and the spread of agribusiness in the countryside. For the International Peasant Movement it is urgent to see the approval of a United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants and all people living in rural areas. It is a tool to support the struggle for life and dignity in the countryside.

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